The use of OER in English as a foreignlanguage at the university

Abstract

The Open Educational Resources (OER) have become important complements in the pedagogical transformations due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. This retrospective analysis tries to find out how 15 EFL professors from a public university incorporated OER in their language classes before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Therefore, the question guiding this inquiry is how did EFL teachers used and use OER before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic in their learning environments? A qualitative methodology is proposed, using the units of analysis for convenience. The results of the research indicate that since and before the COVID 19 Pandemic, public higher education institutions have made the (OER) available to teachers, that their use depended before the teacher’s motivation to use them, but that currently they are material support in the lessons. However, better training plans and technological infrastructure are still needed for a better dissemination of knowledge with the use of these digital resources.